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I was there last night. We couldn't have played worse and lost at the last second of the game. Looked like that layup by Nolan sat on the rim FOREVER, it was a great look. I thought he should have went up with the right and tried to dunk it from my angle, that was a veteran crew, if he got fouled he would've gotten the call. A few observations from the stands: - Cam was struggling with the mask, at halftime the trainer was sanding down the bar between his eyes to help him get a better line of sight. You could tell he couldn't see with that thing on. I think its great he was there and hes going to have to learn at somepoint to play with it on. Hopefully he is more used to it moving forward, it looked like he felt more comfortable as time went on. - I think Rizzuto makes a difference if he's there. Gibson is on the floor to make shots. He didnt make s**t. Therefore, you play the guy who can guard, that last posession Drexel isnt getting that foul if he's on the floor IMO, Rizzuto is guarding that. -IDK how many TOs we had left but we should've used one after the offensive rebound with under a min. Once the shot clock got to 15 we still looked confused I think we go TO there to get a good set and run something to the post for Cam. I dont think we can go with a set for CT there due to his poor FT shooting. I HATED holding the ball till 6 on the shot clock there and hoisting a 3. -We made ZERO shots, we out rebounded them and had less turnovers which is normally a recipe for success. I thought in the first 5 min we had some bad shots/possessions then Skerry corrected that and we generally had good possessions the rest of the way. -Defensively I thought we contested well, they made some tough shots late in the shot clock. Credit to them. I said this before, we couldn't have played worse and still had a chance to win. I am interested to see how we bounce back vs Delaware tomorrow. 2012 is going to criticize and its fair. If we don't come out and play well the next 3-4 games we are going to be the same 'ole Tigers, fighting for a 4-5 seed and bowing out before the Conf Title game. I believe this team has a chance to be really good and compete for the CAA title. I think Nolan and Cam can both be that late shot guy, we just couldnt throw the ball in the ocean last night with many open looks. 1 Question, at the end of the 1H there was a double T on the two coaches. Does anyone have any information with what happened. Skerry talked to the official (who works a TON of Big East games) all the way to the locker room. It looked like he had heard enough of Pat and didnt want to punish him but send a message. The double T negates any FTs and they moved on, just curious if there was any good angle from the TV feed.

I agree with most of this. The only thing I would add is our perimeter defense was terrible. Too many uncontested threes, and shooting well form three was the only way Drexel was going to beat us. I thought for most of the game we did a decent job of realizing it was not our night from three-point land, and really worked hard to get good looks in the paint and tough offensive rebounds. It felt like we abandoned that mindset the last 2-3 minutes. I know in end-of-game situations getting to the bucket gets harder, but we had a clear inside advantage (especially based on who was missing for Drexel). Nolan's two threes before the last shot weren't terrible, but there were better shots to be had if we probed and worked for them. Really good teams do that. My big disappointment with last night is we finally have a team that can win in different ways, and we did not close it out against a team that we had a clear advantage against. All criticisms by others on this board are fair, but I do think this is the best roster we have had since the Benimon years. I am not going to crush them for losing one game. However, if this team finishes anywhere outside of the top three in the conference I will be very disappointed.

Kind of with you here but leaning towards the "we've seen this before" as in previous years. Nolan thinking he's Curry after making that 3 pointer surely didn't help and shows signs of a lack of discipline.

Proud of this group for representing Towson and many wins are gonna come this season. Keep grinding guys. Gibson and Timberlake won’t go 3-17 again and we will hopefully have Rizzuto back for Delaware.